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Use Materials Information

Granta helps engineering enterprises to apply materials information in order to improve product performance and make better business and design decisions. Our solutions allow you to combine the right data (on engineering properties, environmental behavior, and price) with the right specialist tools.

These could be third-party tools - for example, we ensure that accurate, up-to-date, controlled materials data can be accessed within design tools such as computer-aided engineering (CAE) or finite element analysis (FEA) software. Since materials property data is a vital input to the calculations made by such tools, we help to ensure the accuracy of their simulations. (More on deploying information to third party software).

However, there are many important problems requiring specialist materials analysis tools for which third party tools do not exist. Here Granta's materials information technology expertise can be applied to develop targeted solutions. Examples include materials selection and substitution, development and implementation of materials strategies, and addressing the materials challenges of eco design and eco regulations.

Key focus areas

Materials Strategy Consortium - Do your products use many different materials and support many applications? Are your operations split across many businesses or sites? Are regulation or global manufacturing complicating these operations? We help large, complex manufacturing organizations to consolidate and control all relevant data and information about the materials they use. We help them to use that information to make better, more consistent materials decisions enterprise-wide. Results are lower costs, reduced risk, and avoidance of eco or manufacturing problems. More...

Environmental Materials Information (EMIT) Technology Consortium - Are you concerned about environmental regulations (such as REACH) or corporate objectives to reduce energy or carbon footprint? Materials are central to these issues because their use is increasingly regulated and because their properties determine much of the environmental impact of products. EMIT develops and applies materials information technology solutions specifically focused on designing around environmental constraints. More...

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Example solutions

Here are some examples of how Granta's products help organizations to use materials information:

• Optimizing materials choices across the enterprise
  
  
• Eco design and eco regulations
  
  
• Supporting engineering design and analysis (CAE, FEA, CAD...)
  
  
• Enabling materials selection projects
  
  
• Positioning materials (for materials producers)